Elegant Quotes · Page 7

Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.

— Dimitar Sasselov

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

— Thomas Bulfinch

I'm not just muscles and headlocks. I need to prove to people that there is an elegant woman in here.

— Nikki Bella

For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.

— Bernd Heinrich

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

— Sue Grafton

A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.

— Jonathan Maberry

I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a…

— Tamsin Egerton

Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition.

— Grayson Perry

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the…

— Willard Gaylin

“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories…

— Haruki Murakami

All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there…

— Carl Sagan

Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured…

— Dan Jenkins

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated,…

— Hod Lipson

When we think good thoughts, we feel good. When we feel good, we make good choices. When we feel good and make…

— Cheryl Richardson

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but…

— Christian Dior

I always loved Michelle Kwan's outfits. Most of them were designed by Vera Wang, and they're just so simple, but the fabric…

— Ashley Wagner

I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical…

— Francis Lawrence

To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable…

— Chase Twichell

It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked…

— Adela Popescu

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl…

— Richard Whately

The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject…

— Ben Fountain

There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the…

— Claudia Emerson

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

— Bill Nighy

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate…

— Nancy Pearcey

I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.

— Gael Greene

“You look very elegant today, my lord." "I'm wounded. I strive to look elegant every day." - Tyrion & Littlefinger”

— George R.R. Martin

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent…

— Alain-Rene Lesage

I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.

— Miuccia Prada

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

— David McCullough

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

— Cecil Beaton

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

— Miroslav Volf

A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice,…

— Francis Collins

My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

— Jim Jarmusch

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

— Ai Weiwei

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is just perfect-looking. Whether she's walking down the street, she looks so regal and elegant all the time, and I…

— Blake Lively

A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to…

— Oleg Cassini

I like the beach and would also love to learn golf because I think it is rather elegant for an older lady.

— Virginia Hey

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

— Nick Lowe